This is one of the few players that could be worth giving up Fab Melo.

Bass and Melo for Gortat.

If Ainge can get Gortat then expect the Celts to be back in the east finals, even without Rondo.

U do know how many times it has been mentioned Melo in a trade and you kept saying it would be a mistake to trade him? Seeing him against NBA players kind of changes your perspective , doesn't it? I would do this trade without thinking twice. Add a number one pick along with it.

The Phoenix Suns pretty much have just one big man on which they can halfway rely and his name is not Jermaine O’Neal. The Suns have an underrated center in Marcin Gortat who will make a dynamite addition for a title contender if traded and the latest NBArumors suggest the Suns are set trading Gortat. In fact, there at least half a dozen rumors of landing spots for Gortat, if traded, but no one knows what to make of any of them. We’ll try to iron some of it out now.

Gortat isn’t putting up career numbers this year, but his stats aren’t all that bad, either. He’ll still almost averaging a double-double on an awful team that thought it was at a turning point when Phoenix fired head coach Alvin Gentry and replaced him withLindsey Hunter. Gortat is still riding right along after the Suns’ short spurt of energy from the new hire, playing his 36 minutes and then taking off the uniform and going home. However, he could be so much more for a team that knew how to use him and/or a team with just a little bit of talent to put around him.

That’s not to suggest that Gortat is an NBA centerpiece, but if he was traded to the Atlanta Hawks, for example, he could pair with Al Horford down low and do some damage. Just in case you’re wondering, the Hawks are the most likely destination for Gortat as rumors are heating up that Phoenix wants to trade for Josh Smith. If that happens, Gortat will at least be somewhere that can exploit his talents. Whether or not that actually happens remains to be seen.

I like what we have. Jason Collins and Wilcox give us what Gortat would.

if we got Gortat we'd have to replace Bass. time is getting short before the deadline. i say keep the team together till after the season but get another big for the minimum. we had that guy in Darko. wish we would have let him play more than just a few minutes of one game.

This is one of the few players that could be worth giving up Fab Melo.

Bass and Melo for Gortat.

If Ainge can get Gortat then expect the Celts to be back in the east finals, even without Rondo.

U do know how many times it has been mentioned Melo in a trade and you kept saying it would be a mistake to trade him? Seeing him against NBA players kind of changes your perspective , doesn't it? I would do this trade without thinking twice. Add a number one pick along with it.

Get er don Danny Boy

Like I said, Gortat is one of the players worth sacrificing Melo. The other player I would include Melo in a trade is Cousins.

But no way Melo should be included in a package for Dalembert.

Absolutely in favor of getting Gortat for Fab and Bass an if needed 1st rounder, good deal for Celtics. We can take back Phx early second rounder. If we get Gortat it probably eliminates us from Redick but we need a big who can rebound and score inside more than another shooter

would do it in a second, but unlikely phoenix would agree. they can almost certainly get more. any way this team can bring in a big without touching the core of garnett/pierce /wilcox /barbosa/ lee/bradley/terry/green - (and for next year, sullinger/rondo) is a great move. melo is a huge project and is of no use in the near future. think all would agree bass is having a terrible year. the move would solve some issues because garnett could slide to the 4 and play limited minutes at the 5 and wilcox could play the 4, a position he is better suited for. this still leaves green (a terrible rebounder) filling minutes at the 4, but there's no way this is going to be perfect regardless.

the problem is if you gut your core in order to add gortat, you have no shot, and if you do nothing you have no shot. and you might have no shot either way, particularly as you are now short two key frontline players. before, you could afford to lose bass and at least one from the group of lee/terry/barbosa. now you probably need someone like Gortat AND all of those players to try to compete. but given where they are, ideally, they'd be able to obtain a decent big man for bass/melo/1st round pick and then acquire another more marginal big (as an upgrade over collins and replacement for bass) for the end of the bench, but the pickings are seemingly slim. perhaps adding a guard not named bradley or rondo helps the deal happen, though phoenix would probably have to have failed elsewhere before arriving at that.

the idea about getting gortat AND dragic for spare parts is laughable.

the idea that collins and wilcox are even close to comparable to gortat moreso.

The Suns have an underrated centerin Marcin Gortat who will make a dynamite addition for a title contender if traded and the latest NBArumors suggest the Suns are set trading Gortat. In fact, there at least half a dozen rumors of landing spots for Gortat, if traded, but no one knows what to make of any of them. Weâll try to iron some of it out now.

i like gortat as a player. but i am just not sure how he is "underrated"??? he played well along side duh-wight howard in ORL, and never got big minutes- but other than that, what other GOOD teams has he been on?

it's hard to say he's "underrated" when he's put up 15 and 10 for the SUNS, a has been team that either hardly makes the playoffs at best or doesn't at all. remember the "dennis hopson effect" of bringing players who put numbers up on bad teams over to good teams and many times, not all the time, their numbers / productivity plummet.

i don't think gortat is the next dennis hopson in the world of 5's but i don't understand how exactly he is "underrated" at this point in his career....

Gortat is getting good numbers on a bad team and isn't happy and wants more PT. Gortat was getting spot time and doing well in Orl when they were winning and wanted more PT . Gortat has some skills but I'm not rocking the boat to go get Gortat he seems to be interested in his goa;s than team goals

Gortat is getting good numbers on a bad team and isn't happy and wants more PT. Gortat was getting spot time and doing well in Orl when they were winning and wanted more PT . Gortat has some skills but I'm not rocking the boat to go get Gortat he seems to be interested in his goa;s than team goals

Even so Gortat and KG up front is a mile better than Bass KG. I wouldnt rock the boat too much, but there is no doubt that would improve the team greatly.

exactly. PHO has almost nothing at center other than gortat and they are going to want as much as they can get for him and we will have competetion. look down the line at what we REALLY NEED (we have enough scorers) and MOZGOV is probably the most realistic target- denver has TOO MANY BIGS and can't hold JaZale McGee on the bench any longer....

plus we do not need a guy who has zero or 1 more years left on a deal that is then going to fly the coop. give up less and get a masher / banger who will do the dirty work and help KG / wilcox / collins out.

we are on the brink of a rebuild. you don't need a sanctimonious gortat who needs his touches in the middle of that or to WALK AWAY and we gave up fab melo for a player rental (if melo pans out into anything it will be a bother in most people's heads for years to come)